Let Me Tell You

by Shirley Jackson

Laurence Jackson Hyman (Editor)

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From the peerless author of The Lottery and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, this is a treasure trove of deliciously dark and funny stories, essays, lectures, letters and drawings.

Let Me Tell You brings together the brilliantly eerie short stories Jackson is best known for with frank and inspiring lectures on writing; comic essays she wrote about her large, rowdy family; and revelatory personal letters and drawings. Jackson's landscape here is most frequently domestic - dinner parties, children's games and neighbourly gossip - but one that is continually threatened and subverted in her unsettling, inimitable prose. This collection...

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  • ISBN10 0241198208
  • ISBN13 9780241198209
  • Publish Date 25 August 2016 (first published 30 July 2015)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
  • Imprint Penguin Classics
  • Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
  • Pages 448
  • Language English